Queer 1950s
By: edited by Heike Bauer, Matthew Cook
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780230300699
Subjects: Social life and customs; Lesbians; Gay men; History
Description: "Leading sexuality scholars explore queer lives and cultures in the first full post-war decade through an array of sources and a range of perspectives. Drawing out the particularities of queer cultures from the Finland and New Zealand to the UK and the USA, this collection rethinks preconceptions of the 1950s and pinpoints some of its legacies"--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: List of figures; title: Acknowledgements; title: Notes on contributors; title: Introduction / Heike Bauer & Matt Cook; title: The long 1950s as radical in-between : the photography of Herbert Tobias / Jennifer V. Evans; title: Nouveau désordre : diabolical queerness in 1950s French cinema / Andrew Asibong; title: Love "off the rails" or "over the teacups"? : lesbian desire and female sexualities in the 1950s British popular press / Alison Oram; title: Living; title: "Someone to love" : teen girls' same-sex desire in the 1950s United States / Amanda H. Littauer; title: Cross-generational relationships before "the lesbian" : female same-sex sexuality in 1950s rural Finland / Antu Sorainen; title: Moral panic or critical mass? : the queer contradictions of 1950s New Zealand / Chris Brickell; title: Warm homes in a cold climate : rex batten and the queer domestic / Matt Cook; title: Thinking; title: Sexology backward : Hirschfeld, Kinsey, and the reshaping of sex research in the 1950s / Heike Bauer; title: "Who is she?" identities, intertextuality, and authority in non-fiction lesbian pulp of the 1950s / Kaye Mitchell; title: Queer profits : homosexual scandal and the origins of legal reform in Britain / Justin Bengry; title: Geeks and gaffs : the queer legacy of the 1950s American freak show / Elizabeth Stephens; title: Select bibliography.